[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 17 (Monday, January 27, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 3911]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-1913]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[OR-958-0777-63; GP6-0246; OR-19615 (WA)]
Public Land Order No. 7237; Revocation of the Executive Order
Dated October 24, 1916; Washington
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Public land order.
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SUMMARY: This order revokes in its entirety an Executive order which
withdrew approximately 155 acres of public lands for the Bureau of Land
Management's Powersite Reserve No. 556. The lands are no longer needed
for the purpose for which they were withdrawn. The lands are included
in overlapping withdrawals and remain closed to surface entry and
mining. The lands have been and will remain open to mineral leasing.
EFFECTIVE DATE: January 27, 1997.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Betty McCarthy, BLM Oregon/Washington
State Office, P.O. Box 2965, Portland, Oregon 97208-2965, 503-952-6155.
By virtue of the authority vested in the Secretary of the Interior
by Section 204 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976,
43 U.S.C. 1714 (1988), it is ordered as follows:
1. The Executive Order dated October 24, 1916, which established
Powersite Reserve No. 556, is hereby revoked in its entirety:
Willamette Meridian
T. 13 N., R. 23 E.,
Secs. 2, 11, and 12, all unsurveyed islands lying in the
Columbia River.
T. 14 N., R. 23 E.,
Secs. 27, 28, 33, 34, and 35, all unsurveyed islands lying in
the Columbia River.
The areas described aggregate approximately 155 acres in Grant and
Yakima Counties.
2. The lands are included in Power Project No. 2114 and the
Columbia River Improvement Project, and remain withdrawn from operation
of the public land laws, including the mining laws. The lands have been
and continue to be open to applications and offers under the mineral
leasing laws.
Dated: January 10, 1997.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 97-1913 Filed 1-24-97; 8:45 am]
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